Roman Catholic Diocese of Richmond

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Richmond (Latin: Dioecesis Richmondiensis ) in the U.S. state of Virginia was born on July 11, 1820 released from the Archdiocese of Baltimore, but its ecclesiastical province it belongs to today. After the July 19, 1850 the Diocese of Wheeling had been separated from him, it was on August 15, 1858 again, some areas of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Bishops

  • Patrick Kelly (1820-1822, then Bishop of Waterford and Lismore in Ireland)
  • Richard Vincent Whelan (1840-1850, then Bishop of Wheeling )
  • John McGill (1850-1872)
  • James Gibbons (1872-1877, then Archbishop of Baltimore)
  • John Joseph Keane (1878-1888, then Archbishop of Dubuque )
  • Augustine Van de Vyver (1889-1911)
  • Denis Joseph O'Connell (1912-1926)
  • Andrew James Louis Brennan (1926-1945)
  • Peter Leo Ireton (1945-1958)
  • John Joyce Russell (1958-1973)
  • Walter Francis Sullivan (1974-2003)
  • Francis Xavier DiLorenzo (since 2004)
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